Strategy & Economics
The 'Digital Employee' Arrived, but Autonomy Didn't - NIA Trend 2, Revisited at the Half-Year
Holding NIA's 'AI agents' prediction against six months of reality. The multi-agent standards converged faster than predicted (🔵); the digital employee arrived as a noun but shed the adjective 'autonomous' (🟢). ROI failure rates and the governance gap were nowhere in the forecast (⚪).